TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessment of farmers readiness to adopt maize hybrid varieties for high productivity in Ghana
AU - Ifie, Beatrice Elohor
AU - Kwapong, Nana Afranaa
AU - Anato-Dumelo, Mawulawoe
AU - Konadu, Beatrice Agyapomaa
AU - Tongoona, Pangirayi Bernard
AU - Danquah, Eric Yirenkyi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The adoption of maize hybrids is essential to contribute to maize productivity and ensure self-sufficiency and food security. However, the adoption of improved varieties hybrids technology including in Ghana is very low. Farmers’ socio-economic characteristics in relation to the adoption of maize hybrids, farmers constraints and readiness to adopt maize hybrids were assessed using a cross-sectional survey of 173 farmers in four regions in the forest-savannah agro-ecological zones in Ghana. The percentage of farmers that used hybrid seed in 2019 and 2020 were 32.4% and 22.5%, respectively. Of the four hybrids varieties grown, none was locally produced and over 83% of the farmers indicated readiness to adopt maize hybrid seed. The empirical model reveals that farmers readiness to adopt maize hybrids is positively influenced by gender, age, high yield and constraints variables such as high cost of production and pests and diseases.
AB - The adoption of maize hybrids is essential to contribute to maize productivity and ensure self-sufficiency and food security. However, the adoption of improved varieties hybrids technology including in Ghana is very low. Farmers’ socio-economic characteristics in relation to the adoption of maize hybrids, farmers constraints and readiness to adopt maize hybrids were assessed using a cross-sectional survey of 173 farmers in four regions in the forest-savannah agro-ecological zones in Ghana. The percentage of farmers that used hybrid seed in 2019 and 2020 were 32.4% and 22.5%, respectively. Of the four hybrids varieties grown, none was locally produced and over 83% of the farmers indicated readiness to adopt maize hybrid seed. The empirical model reveals that farmers readiness to adopt maize hybrids is positively influenced by gender, age, high yield and constraints variables such as high cost of production and pests and diseases.
KW - Adoption rate
KW - Ghana
KW - farmers
KW - hybrid
KW - maize
KW - readiness
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U2 - 10.1080/09064710.2021.2018032
DO - 10.1080/09064710.2021.2018032
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85122513778
SN - 0906-4710
VL - 72
SP - 506
EP - 515
JO - Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section B: Soil and Plant Science
JF - Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section B: Soil and Plant Science
IS - 1
ER -